Eraserhead

Join us for our David Lynch Double Feature Friday Aug. 17 - Two attendees will receive a special door prize!

Written, produced and directed by David Lynch during his time as a student at the American Film Institute, Eraserhead early on gained notoriety as a midnight movie with multi-year engagements at arthouse venues in cities ranging from Los Angeles to New York.

The obscure plot focuses on factory worker Henry Spencer (John Nance) who resides alone in a bleak apartment surrounded by industrial gloom. When he discovers that an earlier fling with Mary X (Charlotte Stewart) left her pregnant, he marries the expectant mother and has her move in with him. Things take a decidedly strange turn when the couple's baby turns out to be a bizarre lizard-like creature that won't stop wailing. Other characters, including a disfigured lady who lives inside a radiator, inhabit the building and add to Henry's troubles.

Met with decidely mixed reviews at the time of its 1977 release, Eraserhead has since emerged as a critically acclaimed visual tour de force. Writing on the occasion of the film's thirtieth anniversary, Nathan Lee of the Village Voice declared it "a masterpiece of texture, a feat of artisanal attention, an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair, flesh, metal, and ooze."

Duration: 89 mins. | Rating: R

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